Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. End the imperialist meat-grinder! For international working-class struggle against war and imperialism The fall of the town of Avdiivka to Russian troops, who are making gains following the failure of Ukraine’s counter-offensive, quite neatly coincided with the second anniversary of this epoch-defining conflict. To fully appreciate […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). On Thursday and Friday (February 1 and 2), 290,000 Finnish workers held two days of strike, in the largest ever trade union mobilisation to protest against the draconian attacks on welfare, job security, the right to strike and collective bargaining by the country’s right-wing […]
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1.5 million on the streets! On the weekend of 19–21 January, 1.5 million people protested against the far right in the largest wave of demonstrations in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. 350,000 in Berlin, 130,000 in Hamburg, 200,000 in Munich, plus well over 100 demonstrations in smaller towns such as Eitorf, Buxtehude […]
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Jonas Brännberg is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). After just over a month of strike action at Tesla, the stakes in the dispute have been raised considerably. Predictably, the right and capitalists are trying to use the conflict to further restrict the right to strike. Tesla is going even further — in […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). In many countries, workers and youth have taken actions against the shipment of arms to Israel and the massacre in Gaza. This has been urgently necessary and needs to be generalized and escalated. These actions follow a call […]
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Ben Jungster is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Since the beginning of the war in Gaza there have to been protests with thousands of participants all over the world. In Germany they face repression, police brutality and defamation, which include systemic racism. The police in various cities such as Berlin and Hamburg […]
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Paul Smith is a member of Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland). A mass mobilisation of women and youth in Poland’s recent parliamentary elections has defeated the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party. After 8 years of nationalist poison, corruption, cronyism, the erosion of democracy, the fusion of state and party, the plundering of state […]
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This is a statement of ISA’s International Committee. ISA Statement on The New Cold War and Ukraine War Introduction — “The Single Most Important Element of World Relations” ISA has identified a New Cold War between US and Chinese imperialism, which has asserted itself, as “the single most important element of world relations” (ISA World […]
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On Friday, September 22, Speaker of the House of Commons and Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony Rota introduced to the chamber “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero.” He was not referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seated a few metres away during the Ottawa stop of his North American tour to rally support for […]
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Aislinn O’Keeffe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). There is no combination of words that could contain the spirit of Sinéad O’Connor, known in her personal life as Shuhada’ Sadaqat. Even as the press is rushing to churn out adjectives to describe her, they fall flat in her shadow. Yet still […]
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